Stolen deer. Ever lost one?

We lost one last year, though stolen isn't quite the word. My buddy hit a buck too far back and it made it into an open field before it laid down. We could just see the tips of his antlers due to the lay of the land, so could tell that it was still holding his head up. To approach it before it's head went down was begging for it to get back up and run. The chances of it escaping both of us on a snow covered field were about nil, but the risk of having to shoot it to ragdolls had to be considered.
About the time we had decided to give it a few more minutes a pickup came down a cross-trail that would take it right past the buck. Predictably they saw the bedded buck, and jumped out and shot it three times. There is no way that buck could have made us as happy as the grinning shooter was, and besides, it was now a hairy bag of gut-shot bloodclots so we didn't contest his ownership, in fact were only too happy to be rid of it. It was funny how his partner was determined to argue that the deer wasn't hit, even with a blood trail through fresh snow to show differently. We found the whole situation rather funny.
 
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Theft, stealing, road hunters etc. Makes me want to give up altogether.

4 yrs ago, one of the fellows lost his ATV to thefts, He was 79 yrs old. Too many people from A_ _Holeville, grew up in daycares and fed off of the you kill'em videos.

I've seen too many guys think it's a free for all booze fest, drunk every night, he haw.

It's a sorry day, remember the guys who could shoot with iron sights 300 yrds or more and do a head shot.

Pete
 
Come to think of of it, there was one more.
Deer died across the fence on private land. Land owner refused entry, and claimed the deer. MNR is happy if the deer is not allowed to spoil. Although he did have a go at convincing the land owner on our behalf.
We are trying to mend fences with this land owner, so we let it be.
 
bigdawg said:
buy a powerful refile in 338 or higher u will nothave the problem often
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or just learn to shoot the one you have. I've seen a couple of deer hit in the guts by a .458 fired by someone who thought that a big bullet would compensate for ####ty marksmanship. They still hunched off and led everyone on a merry chase following stomach contents and little pieces of pulverized intestine. The one I saw him pump right through the lungs still went 60 yards. The young fella with the .243 had more bang-flops than this bozo.
 
Timberlord said:
One of our guys shot a nice buck and it took off like a rocket to some property nobody can hunt on . I watched at about 150 - 200 yd away as it ran down a hill , jump the fence and collapsed just as he landed ... but I wasn't the only fella watching.
The landowner , of the no tresspassing property , came out with his tractor , hooked up to it and dragged it away ....that was that.
...lesson learned....don't use buckshot -and- the woods have eyes...
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You should have called the MNR if he wouldn't hand it over. He was probably in possession of a deer without a tag. He would have been nailed to the wall.
 
robinhood said:
You should have called the MNR if he wouldn't hand it over. He was probably in possession of a deer without a tag. He would have been nailed to the wall.
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nope if you find it dead you do not need a licence only need to call the MNR and tell them you found a dead deer I believe
 
if you find an animal dead and call the CO you can request the meat sure, but from the CO Ive talked to in town he sais it doesnt happen. The CO has todo a report when a call like this comes in, he has to goto the animal and investigate, this will be in a day or two, sometimes more, the meat is long since spoiled by this time.
 
In Alberta, $10.60 gets you a permit to keep found wildlife. You have to go to the CO office and get the permit, go get the animal you found, bring it to them and they give it the once over.

James found some big moose horns up north last year so we loaded them up and went for the permit and the CO just told us to keep them, no permit purchased. But if he found a dead eagle, it might have been different.

Best to get the permit here first just in case you get stopped enroute to the CO office.
 
Never had game stolen.

Had a deer I shot one evening that I had to leave out over night dragged off by wolves. I even left spent caseing and a smelly t-shirt with the deer but next morning it was gone.

Many years ago when I was yourn I remember my dad angry that someone had cut out and stolen a roast from a moose he had hanging in the bush.
 
Two years ago I had shot a big-bodied buck on my property, tagged it, gutted it, and then decided to walk home to get the 4-wheeler to bring it back to the barn. Less than ten minutes walking, then a couple more to get the ATV driven back to where the deer was left, and what do I find but the carcass dragged about 50 yards to the property line, then abandoned, presumably because they heard me coming back. This guy must have been watching the entire kill in order to be there so fast. Damaged the fence going over as well.

John
 
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